All posts by Rand Simberg

Al Gore, Gulf Warrior

Best of the Web says today:

Gore is no peacenik–he was one of only 10 Democratic senators who voted for the Gulf War–but it does seem likely that if he were president, America would be weighed down by deference to Europeans and pointless concern over “root causes.”

Yes, particularly since, as BotW fails to point out, he agonized over the vote (at least publicly) and, according to Alan Simpson, eventually sold it to the highest bidder in return for additional floor time–in prime time.

Margoworld

Tim Blair bludgeons poor Margo Kingston today (though, unfortunately, probably not into submission).

Margo is truly a national Ozzie wonder, like Ayers Rock, or the Barrier Reef, or vegemite, and he’s lucky among all of us anglospherians to have her. We have our Ralls, our Salters, and they have Heather Mallick Up North, and Fisk across The Pond, but somehow, you just can’t beat the non-stop, vacuous platitudes of Margo.

However, while I realize that she’s a rich ore to mine, he should have broken it up into installments–one can only take so much unprecedented idiocy at a single sitting. One has the frightening thought that he could probably do this every day for a month and never run out of material.